Kelly Clarkson has ceaselessly modified lyrics in the wake of her divorce from Brandon Blackstock, and her latest tweaks grew to become a tribute to her ex right into a self-empowerment anthem.
“This music I initially wrote simply super hopeful, proper? And well, sometimes hopeful becomes hopeless, so right here we cross, ‘Piece by Piece,'” Clarkson, 41, told her Las Vegas audience on Saturday, August 5.
“Piece by Piece” used to be at the start a song about how Blackstock, 46, was once different from Clarkson’s own absentee father. “But piece by piece, he collected me up / Off the ground, where you deserted things, yeah / Piece by piece, he crammed the holes that you burned in me / At six years old and you know,” Clarkson sang at the unique track, which was once launched in 2015.
During Saturday’s show, Clarkson modified the above mentions of “he” to “I,” belting, “I amassed me up” and “I crammed the holes,” making the tune about her personal talent to select herself up after heartbreak. Those weren’t the only changes.
The second a part of the “Piece by Piece” refrain used to praise Blackstock as smartly. Instead of proclaiming, “He never walks away / He by no means asks for money / He takes care of me / He loves me,” Clarkson now sings, “I just stroll away / once they ask for cash / I take care of me / ’motive I love me.”
Money was some extent of contention in her divorce from Blackstock, whom Clarkson married in 2013 and break up from in 2020. “[Brandon] is not going to get one penny from [Kelly] that isn’t ordered by the judge,” a source advised Us in January 2022.
Two months later, they finalized their divorce, and Clarkson needed to pay Blackstock $45,601 a month in kid strengthen (they share custody of daughter River, 8, and son Remington, 6) and $115,000 per thirty days in spousal beef up until January 2024. She was also ordered to pay a one-time lump sum of $1.3 million as part of the settlement.
While her chorus used to conclude with “Piece by piece, he restored my faith / That a man may also be kind and a father could stay,” Clarkson is her personal faith healer in the 2023 replace. “Piece by piece, I restored my religion / That a center can nonetheless beat, even if it breaks,” she sings in her new version.
In the overall verse, Clarkson changes more references from “he” to “I,” noting she’ll by no means walk away or ruin her children’s hearts. While the unique integrated the line, “He’ll maintain issues, he’ll love her,” Clarkson now belts, “I’ll maintain things when you go away scars.”
This isn’t the first time the American Idol alum changed lyrics in reference to her divorce. Clarkson — who released her first post-divorce album, Chemistry, earlier this year — modified the words whilst singing a cover of GAYLE‘s “abcdefu” on NBC’s The Kelly Clarkson Show in March. She saved the altered traces and performed them with out censorship all through her July 29 Las Vegas display.
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“F–k you and your dad and the fact that you got half / and my damaged middle / turned that s–t into artwork,” Clarkson sang.
Clarkson’s Las Vegas residency on the Bakkt Theater at Planet Hollywood will wrap up on August 19.
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